Abstract
The issue of inflation and stabilisation policy in Latin America attracted considerable debate and research during the Ig6os. In the early years of the 1970s the debate largely died oat, for reasons which, as we explain below, are closely related to international developments. But today the issue is reviving as a focal point of controversy, in reaction to further significant changes in the international economy. This is the motivation for the case studies drawn together in this book: what new light can be thrown on these difficult policy issues by reviewing the reactions of six countries to the major adjustment problems thrust upon them since the early 197os? What can the comparison show us both about the internal structures of those countries and about the modus operandi of different stabilisation techniques?
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Thorp, R., Hitehead, L. (1979). Introduction. In: Thorp, R., Whitehead, L. (eds) Inflation and Stabilisation in Latin America. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04259-3_1
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